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RELIABILITY OF VOLVO APPROVED USED TRUCKS IS A WINNER FOR S. & J. PIERCE TRANSPORT
S. & J. Pierce Transport of Leighton Buzzard is no stranger to Volvo Approved Used Trucks, having acquired ten Volvo FH tractor units through the network over the past 18-months, including three this year alone.
The latest addition, however, comes with a racing pedigree that could just give the family run business a competitive edge, as it was formerly the 2015 team transporter for the JG Speedfit Kawasaki British Superbike Racing Team.
Equipped with a Globetrotter XL cab, air-suspended leather seats, microwave and fridge and featuring the 500hp, Volvo DK13 12.8 litre engine producing up to 2500Nm of torque at between 1000 and 1400rpm, the top spec 4x2 FH tractor unit was delivered to the S. & J. Pierce Transport site with just 16,000km on the clock.
"I always get the highest specification I can," says Partner Steve Pierce. "All of our Volvo FH tractor units have either the Globetrotter or Globetrotter XL cabs and are usually the 460 or 500hp variants. This latest addition is even more of a gem than usual though because of the mileage. It's hardly turned a wheel!"
As with all of the company's 45-strong fleet, Steve has added a Kelsa high bar, roof mounted air horns and Alcoa Durabright alloy wheels. "Nice smart trucks are important when it comes to our company perception and reputation and also with regards driver recruitment and retention," says Steve.
S. & J. Pierce Transport was started by Steve and his wife Jenny on 1st April 1986. "I drove and Jenny did the bookwork," explains Steve. "We thought starting on 1st April was a good idea, because if it hadn't worked out we could have said the whole thing was an April Fool's joke."
Far from not working out, the company has grown steadily over the years and moved from its original start-up premises in Great Billington to its current one acre purpose-built facility incorporating twin maintenance bays in 2002. "We now have 44 employees, operate 45 trucks and have a 36-strong mix of curtainside and box trailers," says Steve.
As for the business, S. & J. Pierce Transport can best be described as a general haulier providing UK and European transport services. "It is about a 50/50 split between UK and European work," says Steve.
"Because of our European coverage the trucks average in the region of 150,000km/annum so reliability is key," he adds. "I've now run trucks for some thirty one years, and the constant throughout that time has been that Volvo trucks are true work horses. In my opinion they are the most reliable trucks on the market. We even have a couple of old Volvo trucks with over 2 million km on the clocks. They just keep going." Over and above reliability, Steve says the drivers like the Volvo FH, reserving particular praise for the I-Shift transmission, which he considers to be head and shoulders above competitor offerings.
Kevin Bassindale at Volvo Used Trucks also draws praise from Steve for his support of the company. "Kevin is really our eyes and ears when it comes to sourcing good quality used trucks," he says. "Sometimes Jenny and I don't even see the trucks until they turn up in the yard. Kevin knows what we want and he consistently goes out there and finds it. Essentially, we feel we can trust him to find what's right for our business and that's a really important and valuable service."
Looking at the company's latest acquisition and continuing the racing theme, albeit trading two wheels for several thousand wings, S. & J. Pierce Transport is contracted to the National Flying Club, regularly travelling the length and breadth of the UK to collect racing pigeons before taking them across to France for release. "The tractor unit's the same; I guess it's just the amount of horsepower in the trailer that will change," he muses.
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PPL recognized as a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion"
Company receives top score of 100% on the 2021 Disability Equality Index
ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Corporation is pleased to announce it has received a top score of 100% on the 2021 Disability Equality Index (DEI), earning it the designation as one of the best places to work for people with disabilities.
The DEI is a joint initiative of Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). It serves as the nation's most comprehensive annual benchmarking tool to help companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions that they can take to achieve disability inclusion and equality.
For the fourth year running, PPL's commitment to creating an accommodating and inclusive environment for people with disabilities in the workplace, the community and for those the company does business with is being recognized.
"We want all individuals to realize their full potential and no barrier — visible or invisible — should get in the way of that," said PPL President and Chief Executive Officer Vincent Sorgi. "We're proud of the work we have done to provide new opportunities and pathways to success for many facing challenging situations. We also realize that our work is not done and we will continue to find new ways to break down barriers and help all our employees, colleagues and friends in our communities grow and thrive."
The DEI measures key performance indicators related to organizational culture, leadership, accessibility, employment, community engagement, support services and supplier diversity. PPL's top score is a result of the tangible policies and practices it has put in place to promote the success of those with disabilities. This includes:
Providing expanded mental health resources, guidance and counseling through the company's Employee Assistance Plan to prioritize the well-being of its employees in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continuing PPL's Day in the Life program to connect with college students on the autism spectrum, or with other disabilities, and open up opportunities to a career in energy.
Mentoring individuals through Disability:IN's NexGen Leaders program.
Hosting an annual supplier diversity conference to further expand the diversity of the businesses that provide the company with products and services.
Supporting employees through an active employee resource group, REACH, that is focused on identifying the needs of and providing resources to improve the effectiveness and well-being of differently-abled employees, their friends, families and the communities PPL serves.
PPL was recognized alongside 272 businesses representing leaders across business sectors, including financial services, technology, insurance and health care.
For more about PPL's commitment to inclusion and diversity, visit pplweb.com/inclusion-and-diversity.
For more about the DEI visit: disabilityin.org.
PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL), based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is a leading U.S. energy company focused on providing electricity and natural gas safely, reliably and affordably to more than 2.5 million customers in the U.S. PPL's high-performing, award-winning utilities are addressing energy challenges head-on by building smarter, more resilient and more dynamic power grids and advancing sustainable energy solutions. For more information, visit www.pplweb.com.
About the Disability Equality Index®
The DEI is a joint initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the global business disability inclusion network, to collectively advance the inclusion of people with disabilities. The organizations are complementary and bring unique strengths that make the project relevant and credible to corporations and the disability community. The tool was developed by the DEI Advisory Committee, a diverse group of business leaders, policy experts and disability advocates. Learn more at: www.DisabilityEqualityIndex.org.
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In the alleys and backyards of Edmonton's Post-War Canadian neighborhoods, Alberta based artist Kari Duke captures a world infused with a sense of familiarity and comfort. Duke's painterly canvases burst with warmth that generates a feeling of returning home, regardless of where that may be. At the same time she is surely documenting a slowly decaying sense of community, rapidly giving way to pristine landscaping behind the isolating walls of urban development.
Kari explores a landscape that is as familiar to people as their own backyards but is nonetheless surprising in its ability to show us the beauty of what we take for granted. In her work Duke's nature and civilization exist in gentle opposition to one another, as our local communities give way to the inevitable change that takes place.
Steve's landscapes are loaded with visual intricacies. Throughout his travels, Steve has found that there is simply no light like that of the Canadian prairies, a challenge to describe especially on canvas. Steve's hope is that his work triggers the feeling of familiarity, that somewhere at sometime the viewer has seen or felt this, a familiar mystery that lives on the tip of the tongue. His work is accessible for simply what it is; a painting or a song left to the viewer's interpretation with no tricks.
Robert Lemay paints square by square, row by row. The painting may appear digitized but is meticulously hand painted. He's always used the grid to scale up his photos, but leaving traces of the process creates a tension between the image and the squares of tone and colour which are reassembled by the eye. This highlights the digital, as well as the playful reality that this series imparts - these days oil paintings often compete for wall space with a big screen TV.
Brothers Allan and Dave Thomas, share The Front Gallery exhibition space to each give us a different view on connectivity in our time.
With exquisite detail, Allan invites us to study the characteristics of the architecture that surrounds us and the conversation of the community that they take on.
Dave brings sensitivity to his work that continuously questions our current level of connectivity, and how this strong urge to disconnect through various forms of circuitry and stimulus ironically has us hooked into the web, yet pushes us further from the world around us.
 Krista's inspiration comes from her community. Equally close proximity to the University of Alberta Farm and the river valley offers access to varied landscapes, some lush and detailed, some spacious and quiet. The palette changes with the seasons.
Tony Scherman's encaustic paintings have a timeless quality that embodies the psychological struggles of human existence, fear, hope, moods, and passions that have never failed to keep the world in perpetual motion.
Born in 1950, Scherman received an M. Art postgraduate degree from the Royal College of Art in London in 1974. Since then he has lived and worked in Toronto. His paintings have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in North America and Europe. Scherman's virtuosic use of encaustic sets him apart because these monumental images call into question their own subject. Tony Scherman's work confirms the concept of history expressed by Heidegger when he wrote that history is not a succession of eras, but a unique demonstration of sameness.
In collaboration with Heather Hamel and Angie Bugera Matheson, I'm proud to present this exhibit devoted exclusively to women artists.
Whether social constructs had a significant influence on the awareness, or the process by which these women became artists, there is no question that the message that "Women in Art" brings, is one of women promoting women.
Celebrating the work of Jennifer Berkenbosch, Karen Chaisson, Kari Duke, Lesley Finlayson, Krista Hamilton, Ira Hoffecker, Maryanne Jespersen, Carol Ljuden, Oksana Movchan, Michelle Neumann, Jennifer Poburan, and Verna Vogel.
Visually and conceptually, Oksana's new voice allows her to merge her artistic identity as a Ukrainian soul, with contemporary aesthetics. Her cultural code is a mix of iconography, Ukrainian folk ballads, formal European art school training and a modern painting practice. Oksana aims to establish a harmonic balance between the abstract nature in her paintings with a storytelling and narrative component. The use of colour as a symbol or as a visual guide that delivers a certain message is one of the key elements that describes her "new voice". The juxtaposition between three-dimensional painting techniques and flat (decorative) and graphical shapes allows her to tell a story in an indirect manner. Striving to create a dialogue with the viewer to stimulate their imagination to enter the subject matter where they can process and formulate their own unique story about the work.
A group show featuring artists Daniel Richter, Tal R, Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, David Bolduc, David Urban, Luis Azaceta, Robert Zandvliet.
Craig Le Blanc's art practice reveals a long-standing interest in vulnerability, bravado, ego, loss and façade. In 1996 he began an extended focus on masculinity, work that examined the burden of socially constructed ideals upon what it means to be male. In recent years Le Blanc has redirected this investigation to explore identity politics more broadly, using confessional narratives that both parody and celebrate the perpetual reshaping of subjectivity as seen in his 2016 series She Loves Me. He Loves Me Not.


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TAMPA, FLORIDA – NOVEMBER 08: Alvin Kamara #41 of the New Orleans Saints runs with the ball during the first half against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium on November 08, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Saints Running back Alvin Kamara's stellar regular season performance has him in the running for the 2020 FedEx Ground NFL Player of the Year.
Also up for the honor are running backs, Derrick Henry and Dalvin Cook.
Fans have from now until Tuesday, February 2nd to vote for the 2020 FedEx Ground NFL Player of the year.
The winner will be announced during the NFL Honors awards special on February 6th.
To Vote for New Orleans Saints Running Back Alvin Kamara, click here.
Kamara will be back in action this Sunday when the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers play for the third time this season in the NFC Divisional Playoff Round.
Kickoff is set for 5:40 p.m.
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Just a few weeks ago, New Iberia native and Westgate High product Diontae Spencer recorded his first career touchdown pass on an 83-yard punt return, helping the Broncos to a win over the Carolina Panthers.
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Determination after diagnosis, New Town head coach in the fight of his life
Mike Savage has a new opponent. It's one he never saw coming.
By: Shawn Stepner
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — With a guiding hand and a booming voice head coach Mike Savage commands an off-season weightlifting session for his New Town High School football team.
But before too long his powerful grip and encouraging dialogue will be gone.
"My right arm is weak. My right hand is not as active as my left," he said. "It's challenging at times."
He is feeling the symptoms of ALS.
"Not me. Not Mike Savage. No, you have it misdiagnosed," the 47-year-old recalled thinking when he was diagnosed last summer.
Savage told his four sons first.
"I was shocked. Definitely. It hit me instantly. I actually broke down and cried," said his 30-year-old son Joshua.
Mike kept it secret until an exchange with his brother and cousin during practice in the fall. Both are assistants on his staff.
"I was in practice and I was kind of zoned out. Like am I going to see this field again next year? That's when I was kind of down," he said. "The practice was kind of wild that day. They looked at me like, 'When are you going to fix it'? I just said I don't got it in me. I don't have it no more. They was like, 'What's wrong with you'? As we was walking up the steps I told my cousin and my brother, 'Man, I'm dying'."
ALS is a degenerative neuromuscular disease. There's no cure.
"My brother immediately started crying and my cousin just put his head down and said, 'Hey man, what do you mean'? I told them I got diagnosed with ALS."
The disease eventually paralyzes its victims, who lose the ability to walk, speak, swallow and breathe.
"I was broke at that point. I was at my lowest. I just couldn't believe what was happening to me. I felt like what I had always worked hard to do was to become a head coach and become a powerful head coach in the county and in state. My dream finally came true. I got an opportunity to help kids and get kids to college and now it's going to be cut short. I just couldn't understand it. I was like, 'Why me'?," said Savage.
Those kids he has helped, hundreds of them over the years, have his back.
"I look at him as a father figure more than a coach," said Titans senior Elijah Lawrence. "He's probably a better damn father than my own father. I ain't gonna lie to ya."
Coach Savage's illness hits hard for Lawrence. Savage has been at his side while Lawrence's mother battles stage 3 brain cancer.
"Like he always says, 'Be strong'," said Lawrence. "If I'm going to be strong for my mother, I know damn sure well I can be strong for my coach."
Be strong.
That's Mike Savage.
He's a former college linebacker, a former military man, a current head coach and mentor living with one of the world's most devastating illnesses.
"I always tell them no matter what, in life you got to find a way to win. No matter what the circumstance is just find a way to win," he said. "There's going to be ups and downs. There's going to be triumphs and disappointments and things like that. You just got to keep going."
That's just what he intends to do. With a guiding hand, a booming voice and an inspiring determination.
"I'm going to walk on that field or I'm going to wheel on it. One way or the other. I'll die a football coach," said Savage.
How long do you plan on coaching and working?
"Until the Lord calls me home. Until my job is done. When my task is done here on earth and the Lord calls me home then I'll go. But until then I'm going to be around."
Savage is learning how to balance his time between his three jobs and his three-to-four doctors appointments per week.
In his two years as New Town head coach he has led the Titans to back-to-back state semifinal appearances. He'll have another good shot at that state title in 2020.
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BELGRADE/FRANKFURT -- In a year of almost non-stop crises following revelations of cheating on emissions tests, the force that finally brought Volkswagen Group's factories to a halt wasn't regulators or a court ruling, but a defiant parts supplier from the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Two Prevent subsidiaries quit delivering components after VW canceled a new contract and refused to reimburse money spent to fill the order. Prevent today agreed to resume deliveries following all-night talks after the dispute forced VW to stop production at six of its German factories on Monday.
Prevent Group, a Sarajevo-based company, is controlled by one of Bosnia's wealthiest families.
While VW is known for using its purchasing power to push through cuts, Prevent was the first supplier to fight back by halting deliveries, puzzling industry observers as the two fight it out in court.
"It must have been something huge," Nihad Imamovic, who began working with Prevent founder Nijaz Hastor during the company's early days in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, said of the company's moves. "Something terribly wrong must have been done to him."
Prevent, Bosnia's biggest exporter, has more than 13,000 employees at 36 locations around the world, making goods ranging from car seats to men's clothing to interiors for luxury yachts.
The company's rebellion came after Hastor, the family patriarch whose business relationship with VW dates back some 40 years, handed over day-to-day control of the company to his sons. The new generation is facing turbulent times in the industry, with revenue gains at their lowest level in seven years and small suppliers facing wafer-thin profit margins as they struggle to keep up with new technologies, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Lazard said in a joint study published last month.
Representatives for Prevent and Volkswagen declined to comment on the nature of the dispute.
Hastor started his career in a far simpler auto-components industry. In the late 1970s, Hastor was in charge of non-metal parts for Tvornica Automobila Sarajevo, which built VW models under the TAS brand, according to Imamovic, who oversaw metal parts at the company. In 1988, Hastor moved to Wolfsburg, VW's headquarters, to represent metals conglomerate UNIS in its dealings with the German auto industry. He later was put in charge of VW suppliers in Slovenia, including the original Prevent, a company that took its name from its original line of business, manufacturing protective gloves.
In the early 1990s, Hastor began buying up Slovenian parts manufacturers, gradually turning himself into a VW supplier. He expanded Prevent production in Bosnia, then moved the company's headquarters to the capital, Sarajevo. He got in touch with his old colleague Imamovic just as the Balkan wars were winding down, hiring him as head of his ASA Group, founded alongside Prevent, which grew to encompass everything from insurance and leasing to freight forwarding and organic farms.
When Imamovic retired in early 2011, he sold his stake in ASA to Hastor. He says his old colleague had the papers drawn up for 10 percent more than they had agreed the holding was worth.
"We remained very good friends," Imamovic said by phone from the coast of Croatia. "He never looks down on anybody."
Hastor also had excellent relations with VW, said Borut Meh, who headed Prevent Global in Slovenia for two years just under a decade ago.
"He was a very positive personality, and he wouldn't be blackmailed," Meh said. "He was successful because he focused on the core business."
With Hastor's sons in control and now seeking to diversify the company, Prevent has adopted a more aggressive business style, according to two people familiar with their plans, who asked not to be named discussing internal matters.
Born in Sarajevo, Kenan Hastor and Damir Hastor grew up partly in Germany and studied abroad, according to Bosnian news reports. Just before his wedding last year, a Bosnian news site crowned Damir Hastor "Bosnia's most eligible bachelor."
Meanwhile, Prevent has continued to make acquisitions, including the two subsidiaries now fighting with VW, the Car Trim seat-component division and ES Automobilguss transmission-parts unit. The order canceled by VW involved a 500 million-euro deal with Car Trim that was scheduled to start next year, a person familiar with the matter said last week.
The company first clashed with VW in Brazil, said two people familiar with the matter. The dispute there was over quality issues and late supplies, and as in Germany, Prevent's subsidiaries threatened to halt deliveries, one of the people said.
The question is why Prevent would fight back on a larger scale in Germany, given VW's power and probable ability to lock the Bosnian company out of future contracts, said Stefan Bratzel, director of the Center of Automotive Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.
"It looks like harakiri," or ritual suicide, Bratzel said before an agreement was reached in talks between the two sides. "It will be difficult for them to compete in the next few years, at least with the same management."


Teaches place value; addition and subtraction of 2 digit numbers; regrouping; multiplication of 10, 9, 8, and 5. It is often difficult to demonstrate to students the idea of regrouping. The structure of the Dual Board demonstrates easily that ten ones creates another ten – you physically run out of space for ones – and forces children to regroup them (or exchange them) for a ten-block.
Children build a 2-place number, such as 28, by putting two 10- blocks and eight 1-blocks (single cubes) in the Dual Board. Then they measure the number by placing the blocks in the number track. This gives them both the cardinal and the ordinal aspects of numbers. The Dual Board helps children see the structure of 2-place numbers. The number track helps children see where numbers come in the number sequence.


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Boom (Monument/Sony, 2017)
Walker Hayes
Reviewed by Dan MacIntosh
Walker Hayes has a lot of Sam Hunt in his music, in that he mixes a lot of hip-hop in with his country. Traditionalists will have trouble with his unorthodox approach. Kids, though, raised on just as much Drake as Paisley, will likely eat it up. A few years back, it was Lynyrd Skynyrd and Allman Brothers (mixed with a touch of AC/DC) influencing country sounds. It only makes sense rap and R&B are now impacting country recordings. But also like Hunt, there's good to be found in Haye's stylistic deviations.
One called "Shut Up Kenny," with its stripped-down reggae-ish groove, is a love/hate song to Kenny Chesney. "Why you gotta sound just like she felt?" Walker asks/complains. However, it's "Beer in The Fridge," the album's sparse ballad, that will chill you to the bone. This solitary beer represents his moral dilemma. "You're the reason I quit drinking/And the reason I wanna get drunk," he confesses. He also has more potential access to this beverage, than he does to his lost love. "It's gonna be there in the morning/Even though you won't." In a strange way, it's a contemporary continuation of Webb Pierce's "There Stands the Glass." Beer is an essential character in this song, just like the girl. Country music has always given alcohol mystical superpowers, both for good and for evil. Drinking will change a person, it's true, but there are also consequences. The album closes with "Craig," a song about how one special man that made Hayes feel welcome at church. This Craig exemplified to Hayes how love is a verb, not just an adjective. The church - and the world, for that matter - could sure use a few more Craigs.
Hayes does more country artist name-dropping, than actual country singing on his album. The lightly funky "Mind Candy," for example, mentions Willie Nelson and his song "You Were Always on My Mind" to help describe his obsession with a girl. This means "Boom" is more inspired by country music culture, than containing actual country sounds. At its best, though, it exemplifies some of the best country music values.
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Q: Use shared memory for neighboring array elements? I'd like to process an image with CUDA. Each pixel's new value is calculated based on the two neighboring pixels in one row. Would it make sense to use __shared__ memory for the pixel values, since each value will be used only twice? Aren't tiles also the wrong way to do it, since it doesn't suit the problem structure? My approach would be to run a thread on each pixel and load the neighboring pixel values each time for each thread.

A: All currently supported CUDA architectures have caches.
From compute capability 3.5 onwards these are particularly efficient for read-only data (as read-write data is only cached in L2, the L1 cache is limited to read-only data). If you mark the pointer to the input data as const __restrict__, the compiler will most likely load it via the L1 texture cache. You can also force this by explicitly using the __ldg() builtin.
While it is possible to explicitly manage the reuse of data from neighoring pixels via shared memory, you will probably find this to provide no benefit over just relying on the cache.
Of course, whether or not you use shared memory, you want to maximize the blocksize in x-direction and use a blockSize.y of 1 for optimal access locality.

A: Combine using shared memory with taking advantage of coalesced memory accesses. All you need to do is to ensure that image is stored row-wise. Each block would process a chunk of linear array. Because of data reuse (every pixel except the first and last ones would take part in processing three times) it would be beneficial if at the beginning of your kernel you would copy the values of all pixels that will be processed to shared memory.

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